Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
MALCOLM XYou don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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The price of freedom is death.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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